Free utilities
Here you find all sorts of freebies and services related to video, audio and blogging. The responsibility for these utilities are with the respective owners of the products, although we have tested these personally .
You are invited to express your experiences with these utilities or services and we would be happy to add useful items you found. Now, grab whatever you need below :-)
MWSnap, screen capture utility - review
Yesterday, I was working on a video tutorial to create poster images for video and audio. I was actually planning just to show how to create a screen shot on Windows and then extract the part that is needed. When I suddenly thought, “Let’s find free software to snapshot only the area of the screen [...]
FLV player for Mac OSX 10.x
After testing several free FLV players for Mac, I bumped into Wimpy FLV player, which worked without any problems. I tried several others and every time there was one or other issue that made me throw them out, but this one is going to stay because it does a good job. You need [...]
Share and backup large videos between Mac and PC using MyBook or any external hard drive
My Book and most external hard drives are set up out-of-the-box to work with Mac and PC thanks to a special format that both systems understand. As a result, you can use your external drive as a backup which you can access on both Mac and PC. This is very convenient if you are [...]
Sumo Paint - Online image editor - revised
I just tested an easy to use online image editor to create and adapt images. The application is called Sumo Paint and I’m quite charmed by the way it works, actually. It has layers and blending modes comparable with Adobe Photoshop, but everything is a bit more primitive, which is good because it is not [...]
Handbrake review - Converting DVD to movies
Converting DVD to movies on Mac was a job for Visual Hub, but Tyles from Techspansion discontinued the application. The new born King is: Handbrake! Mac users were happy to work with Visual Hub for years and many are sorry to see the application go, partly because it could do a lot more then converting [...]
Password creator for web accounts
We keep doing it, using the name of our dog or cat as a password and at some point, we are amazed someone breaks into our web space or bank account because it is so easy to guess. Here is an utility that creates safe passwords for you, a courtesy of Raboo Design. The only [...]
WordPress: blog & content management into one
It’s obvious that blog owners tend to favor their own system as they grow to like it, but WordPress is an absolute necessity when in comes to user friendliness and SEO. If blogging is your business then you should consider WordPress as it is thé choice of most prominent marketing gurus. The programmers of WP [...]
Free Flash Video player - Windows
Here you find a free Flash Video player for Windows by the creative folks of Applian technologies: Applian FLV Player 2.0, which you can use to view the videos you create with Vlog It, Camtasia and any other video editors that can produce FLV movies. I use it myself quite often and I’m very happy [...]
Audacity, free sound editor
Audacity is a little gem under the free sound editors. It has a great noise removal feature which can supress static background noise as if it was never there. (Use it sparingly though, it can create weird effects. See How to reduce static in my audio? for more info about avoiding static.)
There are many other [...]
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